Close to 16 Florida law enforcement agencies joined together for a massive sex sting operation that nabbed all kinds of suspects from all walks of life, including a Florida high school English teacher. The suspects were under the impression they were going to meet up and have sex with underaged…
The remains uncovered at the home of Brittney Sierra, 21, and Calvin Melvin Jr., 27, are being called “consistent with that of a small child or infant” by authorities and will undergo DNA testing Saturday for positive identification. The search for the missing 2-year-old son of Sierra and Melvin, meanwhile,…
The possible remains of an 18-month-old boy who has been missing since July of 2011, have been found at the home of his two parents, authorities say.The parents, Brittney Sierra, 21, and Calvin Melvin Jr., 27, were arrested on child neglect charges. According to Hallandale Beach Chief of Police Dwayne…
There are plenty of passages in the Bible that tell us not to lie, but they don’t say jack about fudging invoices or grant applications! On December 21, a Deerfield Beach pastor, Anthony Davis, was hit with $50,000 in civil fines for having overbilled the government. Davis’ organization, Brotherly Love…
On December 15, the day Danielle Sachs and her boyfriend allegedly dined at a Fort Lauderdale Wendy’s, met a man there, went back to his house, and suffocated him, Sachs’ horoscope mood was “curious,” and she was told to “keep an eagle eye out for new people.” Apparently, she did…
Start off the new year right by nerding out and impressing your friends today at 6:03 p.m., when the International Space Station will be visible over South Florida for about six minutes. Yes, the station is visible to the naked eye as it cruises 200 miles above the Earth. NASA…
Right out of the gate, let’s set the obvious into stone: Don’t drink and drive. At all. Ever. Especially tonight. It’s not only dumb but expensive. Worse, all your friends will find out. They’ll laugh at you. But let’s say you have a friend. This friend has a big New…
Nely Limeira, 73, of Oakland Park fell victim to a lottery scam that took advantage of her kindness. And now authorities are on the lookout for two women who perpetrated the shakedown that robbed Limeira of $12,300 in cash and jewelry. According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, Limeira was approached…
In 2001, twentysomething Nicole Jaquis, who’d grown up down here in Wellington and then moved to Boston, left her job and joined some friends who were making a documentary in India about the Kumbh Mela — one of the biggest gatherings on planet Earth, which you’ve probably never heard of. After…
A fire broke out at the Hope Medical & Wellness clinic in the 2800 block of Hollywood Boulevard on Christmas night. Now Hollywood police, fire rescue, and the state fire marshal are joining together to investigate a possible connection to the fire and a cryptic message scrawled on the clinic’s…
Raees Qazi, the younger of two Oakland Park brothers charged by the FBI with conspiring to funnel “material support” to terrorists planning to explode a weapon of mass destruction somewhere in the United States, allegedly planned to either blow himself up or detonate a bomb in New York that would…
Scott Israel’s November win in the Broward County sheriff’s race will probably mean a big shakeup at the area’s largest law enforcement agency. But it’s a labor dispute time-stamped from the sheriff-elect’s failed 2008 campaign for Al Lamberti’s job that might change daily business at departments across Florida. Jeffrey Stanley…
Florida Rep. Dennis Baxley has a fantastic solution to preventing another tragedy like the one suffered in Newtown, Connecticut, on Friday: All teachers and principals should carry guns in their schools. Baxley, who is also the state rep who helped sponsor an equally fantastic idea that became Florida’s “Stand Your…
The two teens who were charged with murdering a homeless man behind an auto parts store were looking to hook up with a prostitute on that fateful night. Juan Xolo, 17 and Jose Carlos Llano, 14, who confessed to police of stabbing the man with a pen, had been introduced…
Broward County Circuit Court’s Jeffrey Streitfeld really took home the “activist judge” belt when he presided over Lucinda Naugle’s 2009 lawsuit against Big Tobacco. The sister of a former Fort Lauderdale mayor, Naugle was a smoker whose 25-year habit led to emphysema. She asked the court to put Philip Morris…
Yesterday we told you about a dead man that was found behind an Advance Auto Parts store in Hallandale Beach. Police had taken two teens that were spotted fighting with the man in for questioning. According to Hallandale Police Chief Dwayne Flournoy, Juan Xolo, 17 and Jose Carlos Llano, 14…
On Tuesday night, some 11.3 million people watched The Voice finalist Cassadee Pope perform on-air CPR. One of the four finalists in NBC’s blockbuster song-off, the West Palm Beach native took up a lifeless Keith Urban song, pumped that sucker full of actual artistic juice, and miraculously came out with…
New Times Broward Palm Beach editor Chuck Strouse and managing editor Deirdra Funcheon almost came to blows over this week’s feature story, Balloon Boy 2012: Three years after the hoax, Falcon Heene fronts a metal band. What follows is a stolen transcript of a conversation the two had over IM…
A Lakeworth man is facing armed robbery and aggravated assault charges after the two men he allegedly robbed recognized him on Facebook. Dondrae Mathew Pink, 18, was picked up by Palm Beach County cops on December 7 after two 17-year-old victims pointed him out to police as the man who…
Sheheryar Alam Qazi, and Raees Alam Qazi, two Pakistani-born brothers charged by the FBI with conspiring to funnel “material support” to terrorists planning to explode a weapon of mass destruction somewhere in the United States, pleaded not guilty at a hearing in federal court in Fort Lauderdale on Friday morning…
A Broward County grand jury deliberated for just 23 minutes before indicting Cid Torrez on a charge of first-degree murder in the death of his missing wife, Vilet Patricia Torrez. Vilet, 38, a mother of three, was last seen March 31. But Cid, 39, didn’t report her missing until April…
Imagine you want to travel to a foreign country to work with the locals. You link up with a company that promises to handle the specifics across the ocean. Everything sounds legit, so you kiss the family goodbye and hop the thousand-some miles for the big adventure. But when you…
